Tue. 5/10/16 12:14pm
Liz Berg:
@slazenger, Trouble's last track was a bit on the dancey side, my first track was more on the Steve Reich end of the spectrum.

Tue. 5/10/16 12:15pm
slazenger:
Thanks, this is way awesome.

Tue. 5/10/16 12:16pm
coelacanth:
i had backed up my player to hear Trouble's antique road show story and forgot to reset so the playlists changed in the midst of the Amazing Ravi Schankar and i thought wfmu was playing an april fools' joke which would really get people in may. all this follows that perfectly.

Tue. 5/10/16 12:35pm
Liz Berg:
Artist Steve Combs had a crazy run-in with someone who stole his music and posted it on youtube under another name:freemusicarchive.org...

Tue. 5/10/16 12:40pm
ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:
Enjoying the robot groove thang Liz. By the way, it would please you to know that I was cruising for a joke gift for my brothers birthday in a Salvation Army thrift store and came across an $8 dollar casio keyboard from the late 1980s! I snapped that up, put in fresh batteries and made my sister bonkers playing it in the car on the way back. Decided to keep it and give him something else, just for the horribly great drum rhythyms on it.

Tue. 5/10/16 1:01pm
mariano:
My mom and stepdad got one of those "Fun Machines" when I was a kid, which were electric organs with all kinds of bells and whistles. Kind of like a big tacky Casio keyboard made out of faux wood you could sit at. That one had a hell of a demo.

Tue. 5/10/16 1:18pm
ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:
I have to go home and look at the model of my thrift store Casio buy. I have a toy sized one as well. It's blue and orange, has a belt clip, three drum rhythms and an orange light that flashes with the beat.

Tue. 5/10/16 2:00pm
Liz Berg:
Ha ha, thanks Mariano! I made up that translation if you couldn't tell...

Tue. 5/10/16 2:03pm
mariano:
Great song to follow up! Sorry, it's hard to resist the temptation to be a language pedant...

Tue. 5/10/16 2:06pm
mariano:
It's probably my insecurity though: was in Berlin a few weeks ago for the first time since '98, and I was appalled at how bad my German has become. No better way to compensate than to correct someone else's German: and so the cycle of evil continues!

Tue. 5/10/16 2:21pm
mariano:
Thanks, was a short three-day trip to see my friends who are there for a year, but enough for me to embarrass myself when trying to order stuff at their local coffee shop. The biggest defeat is when they just answer you back in English!

Tue. 5/10/16 2:31pm
Andrew Waterloo:
@Mariano, I have the same experience with french when I go to Quebec. After 3 or 4 syllables it's "oh, You're English" and then you stuck talking in English.

Tue. 5/10/16 2:32pm
mariano:
@Andrew: Good to know there's a fellow sufferer on the list!

Tue. 5/10/16 2:38pm
mariano:
Yeah, with me it was more the questions they asked in return: I have the "Ein Milchkaffee bitte" part down, but then I'd get a question I didn't understand in return. This Coathangers: remember a group called the Rogers Sisters? Very similar.